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Clinical Articles / BY: Jacqueline Chang, MD, CCFP April 2018
... and followed closely by a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals. Before surgery, patients will have ... enough to initiate change. Encouragement and support from health care professionals can go a long way toward helping ... and maintain lifestyle changes coupled with support from health care professionals will ensure successful weight loss ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Wing, MD, FRCSC April 2018
... care as a result of rationing in the publicly funded health care system.[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ] Moreover, it is ... and surgery in BC. Although a review of the Ministry of Health’s surgical patient registry website ( ... Methods Currently, 49 orthopaedic surgeons from five BC health authorities contribute anonymized scheduling data from ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi April 2018
... 2006 and 2015 show that suicide rates in Vancouver Island Health and Northern Health regions are 34% and 68% higher (respectively) than in the Vancouver Coastal Health region.[ 2 ] A provincial youth suicide prevention ...
News / BY: Sam Bugis, MD April 2018
... often physicians don’t know whom to contact in the health authority structure. After asking the same question ... that doctors feel so discouraged about. It encourages health authorities and doctors to talk to each other and ... will continue to take effort on the part of physicians and health authorities.  How will we know if it is working? When ...
News April 2018
On 6 October 2017 the Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) in Vancouver located on the ... This campaign, championed by Dr Lori Brotto, a women’s health researcher, clinician, and executive director of the ... 7 years, and that’s with multiple visits to a variety of health care professionals. This is, unfortunately, because ...
News / BY: J. Stewart April 2018
... likely assumed as automatic. But according to the World Health Organization (WHO), that is not necessarily so.  In ... report on the mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities, childbearing women in BC have created a ... Hospital Foundation, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research enabled Changing Childbirth in BC, a ...
News April 2018
... of the caregiver is crucial to the physical and mental health of outpatients. However, those providing essential ... billion a year, which would place increased strain on a health care system already under immense pressure. To combat ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kara Solmundson, MD, CCFP (SEM), Sport Med Dip, MSc April 2018
To reduce the pandemic of chronic disease, the World Health Organization implores physicians to target physical ... 2 ] Exercise follows a dose response curve, with greater health benefits accrued by those who attain higher levels of ... of Canadians would decrease 30%.[ 2 ] From a population health perspective, significantly smaller amounts of physical ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS April 2018
... 3 ] a directory of guidelines produced in Canada by health organizations, societies, governments, or expert ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB July/August 2018
... that family physicians lead the delivery of accessible health care, strengthen the capacity and overall quality of the health care system, and improve the overall health of the population ( ...